--- title: Then she came up in the form of the Queen to the cradle, and gave th… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Then she came up in the form of the Queen to the cradle, and gave the child drink, shook up his bed, and covered him up, and then swam away again as a duck through the brook. Who acts: piece. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood, with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/80/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [The Three Little Men in the Wood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/) / 80 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 80 Then she came up in the form of the Queen to the cradle, and gave the child drink, shook up his bed, and covered him up, and then swam away again as a duck through the brook. **Who acts:** piece · **What happens:** come up, give, shake up, cover up, swim away, form · **To what, where:** form, child drink, bed, child, Queen This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (piece), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11027:24:80 # text = Then she came up in the form of the Queen to the cradle, and gave the child drink, shook up his bed, and covered him up, and then swam away again as a duck through the brook. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 cradle cradle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 covered cover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 33 swam swim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 away away ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 again again ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 36 as as ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 through through ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 brook brook NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come up** | past | piece | | | the form of the Queen | then | to the cradle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to cradle=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **give** | past | | the child drink | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme | | 3 | **shake up** | past | | child's bed | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bed=Patient | | 4 | **cover up** | past | piece *not said here* | | child | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination | | 5 | **swim away** | past | piece *not said here* | | | | then; again | as a duck through the brook; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **form** | | | the Queen | | | | | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/81/) - ↑ back to [The Three Little Men in the Wood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/)